cleaning polution

[rainmaker]

This is my first go at C3C and have tried unsuccessfully to automate workers to clean poluton as in PTW. I have used shift-p and shift-c but get no response.

The clear damage button only appear once the worker is on the polluted tile.

I'm playing with the "complete Civ" game package so I don't think it's a lack of a patch.

Can anyone tell what I may be missing?

 

[TimBentley]

I believe the command is shift-d. You can also choose to show advanced worker actions in the options menu somewhere.

 

[thetrooper]

shift-d is vorrect. I had to look at the keyboard to verify that

 

[rainmaker]

Shift-d works fine. Interesting (but no surprising) the manual that came with the game had shift-P.

Also, first time I enabled advanced buttons. thanks for calling that to my attention

 

[Mordack]

yes but it stinks that you have to manually reassign citizens to recently cleaned tiles

I now use a suggestion from this site to set governors to manage happiness - that at least makes it tolerable

still sux though - my number one wish for Civ4 is to get rid of pollution

 

[thetrooper]

yes but it stinks that you have to manually reassign citizens to recently cleaned tiles

So true. That's really painful on a large/huge map.

still sux though - my number one wish for Civ4 is to get rid of pollution

On this point I must disagree. Pollution is a penalty for having too many citizens/too productive cities. But I'd like to see a little change...

 

[fe3333au]

You can automate clean-up by clicking the advanced button option under preferences ... with this checked then all the button commands specific to the unit are displayed ... eg stacking, rename, automatic worker commands, ...

However a warning ... I had 25+ auto workers busily cleaning up pollution ... I was sneak attacked and the player took a city and bombed the surrounding rail and roads into oblivion ... thus isolating the bridghead from my counter attack ... my workers thought that this was just too messy to leave alone and like a flock of lemmings, blindly hopped to the bombed tiles ... and were promptly 'converted' to the enemy cause ...

Lesson which I will never ever agian commit is don't automate workers when at war or even when things are hotting up on a foreign level ...

 

[Willem]

Shift-d works fine. Interesting (but no surprising) the manual that came with the game had shift-P.

Also, first time I enabled advanced buttons. thanks for calling that to my attention

Shift-P was the old command, before Conquests. I guess they just didn't get around to updating the info. But Shift- C should work if your Worker is on the same square as the pollution.